ICE arrests Salah Sarsour president of Wisconsin largest mosque

Approximately 12 ICE agents arrest Salah Sarsour, 64, a legal permanent resident and board president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, near his Franklin, Wisconsin home on March 30, 2026. As of April 3, Sarsour is held at a county jail in Indiana. DHS accuses Sarsour of lying on immigration forms about a conviction by Israeli military courts for throwing rocks as a teenager in the occupied West Bank. His attorneys say the U.S. government has known about the conviction since 1993, when Sarsour arrived. DHS also alleges "suspected funding of terror organizations" — a charge his attorneys deny and for which DHS has provided no public evidence. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson calls the arrest "an outrage." Sarsour has lived in the U.S. for 33 years.